The Albany Times Union is reporting that, not only will Albany DA David Soares release a report further exonerating members of Eliot Spitzer's staff in the so called "Troopergate" scandal, but he will also criticize Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's initial investigation as well as the "political theater" that dragged his office into a "needless investigation". It's got to be a rather stinging rebuke to the Bruno crew.

X-posted at TAP

Soares: Scandal broke no law

District attorney weighs whether to criticize politics, Cuomo's investigation

Albany County District Attorney David Soares has found no criminality in his review of the Troopergate scandal.

Moreover, the freshman prosecutor is weighing whether to include in his report a condemnation of the political atmosphere that drew his office into the matter, and a critique of what he is said to consider was a badly done investigation by Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.

Soares on Monday said he would not comment on the findings, but a person familiar with the investigation said the district attorney has concluded that aides to Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer broke no laws in what a report by Cuomo described as a political scheme to discredit Senate Majority Leader Joseph L. Bruno.

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Soares, the source said, also is considering commenting in the report on how Bruno, in particular, dragged his office into a needless investigation after Cuomo's office already had concluded no laws were broken. And, according to the source, Soares is weighing voicing his irritation that Cuomo's investigation was so poorly done that his office "had to start from scratch."

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. Of course, I'm sure that this won't likely deter the Bruno/Stone/Caputo machine as they continue to try to simulate grassroots outrage. It would appear that the real scandal lies with a shoddy investigation by the AG's shop, the faux outrage and posturing Bruno's Senate Investigations Committee and the pathetic attempt to create a "groundswell of folks out there eager to see him pay for his (Spitzer's) crimes".

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